{"id":1125,"date":"2005-10-25T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T00:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2005-10-25T20:34:25","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T00:34:25","slug":"half-hour-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Half-Hour for Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Concannon Jr.
\nInstitute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti<\/a><\/p>\n

If you like films<\/strong>: Two excellent films on Haiti have been released recently. Both are receiving rave reviews, but because they challenge the foreign policy of wealthy countries, both are having trouble getting into theaters. They need your help, so try to organize a showing, for your community or your church, solidarity or school group. It is not necessary to attract a huge crowd to each showing (although it would help), it is important that there be a lot of showings. As they say in Haiti, men anpil, chay pa lou (many hands makes the load light).<\/p>\n

Haiti: The Untold Story<\/em><\/a> by Kevin Pina, chronicles the brutal daily human rights violations committed against democracy supporters in Haiti since the February 2004 coup d?etat. The film focuses on abuses in poor urban neighborhoods by the Haitian National Police and United Nations Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) troops in Haiti, especially the July 6, 2005 Cite Soleil massacre. It was produced at great personal risk by journalist\/filmmaker Pina, who has covered the grassroots democracy movement in Haiti for the past ten years. It contains stunning footage not available elsewhere. For more information, or to view a trailer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aristide and the Endless Revolution<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Nicolas Rossier
\n(Baraka Productions)<\/p>\n

?An hour south of Miami, the elected president of the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation has twice been forced from office with the complicity of the international community. “ARISTIDE and the Endless Revolution” investigates the tragic events that led to the second violent expulsion of Jean Bertrand Aristide from Haiti. This documentary reveals the tangled web of hope, deceit, and political violence that has brought the world’s first black republic to its knees.? For more information or to view a trailer<\/a>. The film will be shown in New York from November 17-23 (pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n

A third film, Pote Mak Sonje<\/em>: the Raboteau Massacre Trial<\/strong> (Christine Cynn and Harriet Hirshorn) is a few years old, but is an important reminder of the possibilities of democracy in Haiti. The film chronicles the tenacious, non-violent and ultimately (but temporarily) successful fight for justice by the victims of the 1994 Raboteau Massacre. The victims took risks for justice, because they saw it as a way of breaking Haiti?s cycle of violence and transforming the justice system from an instrument of repression into an instrument of liberation. They succeeded in convicting the top paramilitary and military leadership of murder in a trial hailed as ?a landmark in the fight against impunity.? After the film?s release, all those convicted were freed following the February 2004 coup d?etat. For more information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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